Do you want to know what the maximum number of users is that your Oracle Webforms application can support? Do you need to know how your application will perform with 100 users? A coworker just showed me a tool which will help you answer these questions: forms2test. With this tool you can performance test oracle forms applications.
Forms2test is a utility which enables you to record an Oracle Forms session and replay it with any number of users. It records the data communicated between the Forms applet and the Forms server. This data is used to replay your session. So it doesn’t actually start 20 applets when simulating 20 users, it just starts 20 threads resending the data to the server. This will quickly give you an indication of the maximum number of users your server will support.
March 30th, 2006 at 16:58:16
Alas my Dutch isn’t that hot. Could you just say whether this is a free or licensed tool?
Cheers, APC
March 30th, 2006 at 17:14:30
It is a licensed tool, but a lot cheaper than it’s nearest competitor mercury loadrunner.
March 30th, 2006 at 18:38:54
You can always use http://www.altavista.com/babelfish to translate Dutch websites to English – or in this case to double-dutch; babelfish isn’t too hot on jargon
Tot ziens
Nigel
March 17th, 2008 at 03:30:29
Thank you for this outstanding article.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:26:36
So the next question is: is there an open source performance test tool that can be used against Oracle Forms?
October 28th, 2009 at 17:13:42
You can now use Oracle’s new tool OpenScript, which supports both Functional and Load testing of Oracle Forms. I have written a white paper on Functional Testing. Please see:
http://www.scl.com/software-quality/software-quality-resources/testing-oracle-forms-with-openscript
Regards